Casey Hanrahan - Quiver Chris Avitabile - Shine Your Heavenly Body Tonight Exhibition Dates: May 24 - June 28, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 24 from 6 - 9 PM Casey Hanrahan creates dynamic large-scale wall reliefs based on geometric patterns of circles and radial lines that reflect, refract, and illuminate. Using non-traditional art materials, his work deals with the relationships, properties, and measurements of surfaces and lines, reflecting a world closely related to industrial and architectural design. Casey Hanrahan received a BFA from California Polytechnic Pomona. His work has been shown at POST and the Brewery in Los Angeles, the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum at California State University San Bernardino, the Spurgeon Building and OCCA in Santa Ana, California. He works, lives, and surfs in Orange County, California. For his first solo show, Chris Avitabile scours the throwaway rock t-shirt gutter to re-animate past and present idols into alien forms very much the product of our world. 'Shine Your Heavenly Body Tonight' explores new ideas in how we mythologize our pop stars, playfully, and sometimes eerily fusing sculpture with remixed audio pieces to create new objects of extreme devotion. Chris Avitabile is a musician and artist living in Los Angeles. His deeply layered cut and paste music draws on multi-instrumentation and a vast record collection as inspiration. His visual work shares the same practice of conjuring up contrasting arrangements, and reveals itself through drawing, painting and sculpture. He also is a contributor to the musical collaborative OJO and teaches experimental sound workshops for children. www.collapsiblemammals.com